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Bipartisan Task Force Calls for “Pro-America” Trade Policy to Bring Home Benefits of Global Commerce

September 22, 2011 Comments off

Bipartisan Task Force Calls for “Pro-America” Trade Policy to Bring Home Benefits of Global Commerce
Source: Council on Foreign Relations

One of the most effective ways to create good new jobs and reverse the income decline of the past decade is for the United States to “become a thriving trading nation,” concludes a new high-level Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)-sponsored Independent Task Force report on U.S. Trade and Investment Policy.

The report calls for the Obama administration and Congress to “adopt a pro-America trade policy that brings to more Americans more of the benefits of global engagement, within the framework of a strengthened, rules-based trading system.”

The growth of global trade and investment has brought significant benefits to the United States and to the rest of the world. But U.S. leadership on international trade has waned in recent years because of deep domestic political divisions over trade policy that arise largely from the very real economic difficulties too many Americans face, acknowledges the Task Force.

The Task Force warns that the political stalemate “has already harmed U.S. interests and will do more if it remains unresolved.” “Unless the United States develops and sustains a trade policy that yields greater benefits for Americans in job and wage growth, it will be difficult to build the political consensus needed to move forward,” says the report.

+ Full Report (PDF)

Categories: business and economics, Council on Foreign Relations, government and politics, international relations, political process, trade

Pentagon Papers

June 20, 2011 Comments off

Pentagon Papers
Source: National Archives (via Council on Foreign Relations)

The Pentagon Papers report regarding U.S. conduct in Vietnam was released in this version on June 13, 2011 on the National Archives’ website; the website states,

“The Pentagon Papers, officially titled “Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force”, was commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. In June of 1971, small portions of the report were leaked to the press and widely distributed. However, the publications of the report that resulted from these leaks were incomplete and suffered from many quality issues.

On June 13th, 2011, the 40th anniversary of the leak to the press, the National Archives, along with the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon Presidential Libraries, will be releasing the complete report. There are 48 boxes and approximately 7,000 declassified pages. Approximately 34% of the report will be available for the first time.

Categories: Council on Foreign Relations, government and politics, history, military and defense, national security
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